IRISAN
Come from the Ibaloi Term "Idisan"(a wood used to grind something to
make it fine.
Used to be a part of TUBA,Benguet under the first mayor of Tuba,
JOAQUIN SMITH.
With the traditional Houses were made of pine wood and cogon stick
roofing or sapsap.
There was also a creek nearby where gold panning was done and lime
quarry (Apugan). THe lime wuarry was later
on bought by the
BENGUET CONSOLIDATED
INCORPORATION (BCI). The lime kiln
INCORPORATION (BCI). The lime kiln
was a joint venture between the Ibaloi Felipe
Pucay and the BCI.
Pucay and the BCI.
Catalino Pablo, the father of Virginia Luna, who found work as a
Carpenter in the lime kiln.
Upon graduation from high school,Virginia Luna married Lopez Oseo,
a local Ibaloi with one son but then
they separate. Later, she married
Felix Luna a local Ibaloi and they
have nine children, one adopt and
one step
sister.
Igorots claims 211 titles. Eventually, these titledwere sold to people
from Manila and converting the land into a
subdivision, houses,
buildings and houses. Like CooYeeSan, back then
known as the
known as the
Baguio Military Institute school for rich people.
Every settlers paid
Every settlers paid
their land for P2.00 per square meter.
As time passed by, Irisan was developand brought drastic changes to
Irisan.
Irisan now has the biggest population of all barangays in the city. It is
divided into 33 purok, composed of settlers from CAR, Manila and other
lowland province.
speaks as one who has married into an Ibaloi family.
Irisan is proof of the minorization, marginalization,dislocation,silence
and invisibility of the Ibalois in the face of rapid urbanization and
massive in-migration of numerous other people and cultures into
Baguio.
